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Originally posted by Protege This is my preferred way of mixing though lately Ive been having split cue in one ear and the other to the speaker. Its kinda the best of both worlds imo.

Same here...

but what bout the Big djs in gigs? what method do u guys think they use?

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Originally posted by Hasneez Same here... but what bout the Big djs in gigs? what method do u guys think they use?

I would think they mix in the headphones being that I don't see why they would be a using a mixer that doesn't have this feature.

Nope, you never see the "pros" mixing anyway then one ear on, one ear off.

Once you master mixing that way, your ears become so well tuned in that there is no need to mix in the headphones.

And a lot of pro's prefer classic rotary mixers! Look at Stereo in Montreal, it's one the most renound clubs in the world as far as sound goes, and they have a UREI 1620 mixer (no headphone mixing options). And people LOVE that system

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Originally posted by DOOMBOT I would think they mix in the headphones being that I don't see why they would be a using a mixer that doesn't have this feature.

i am sure everyone has their own little techniques and tricks, it comes down to what you are comfortable with and what works for you though after you get the basics of mixing down.

here's mine,

i learned to beatmatch only using my headphones. i invested in a good set of monitors soon after and learned to mix on them as well. a very good thing to do is to play out both tracks on your monitors without headphones when you are still in the learning stages. you will be able to pick up everything that you do with a lot better perception this way.

ten years later and this is how i do it playing out at gigs or at home when using my monitors,

i listen to both master (playing) track and the cue track through my headphones at first for fine tuning (both earcups).

i then adjust level/bpm/eq etc for incoming track or sample and proceed to mix when the "timing" is right.

in the process of now being "in the mix" i continue to listen through the phones for accuracy.

once everything is a go and i am right "in the mix" i then take one earcup if not both off to listen to the monitors or live pa. this tells me the truth of what is really happening with the mix (what the audience will hear). if i feel something is off then i place one or both earcups back on to check if anything is off and adjust if need be.

works like a charm for me everytime. hope i did not confuse the fuk out of anyone! lol.

Been in 4 clubs so far with my Traktor laptop system and none of these places had monitors (normal situation in dives ). So I mix in the phones, which I would do anyway even if they had monitors. Works for me and I don't need to worry about whatever cueing system they have on the club mixer or compensate for the different sound of the monitors in each place.

There is no right or wrong way and there is no cheating unless you use ableton... :P

Try and master both, thats the best thing obviously, and it will be very very very rare that you'll come across amixer theses days in clubs and bars that dont have a decent cue facility, even that rane rotary has been updated with the option to split cue.

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Originally posted by zizack I learned to mix, beatmatching solely in my headphones, but if you plan on ever playing out you have to master the one ear on, one ear off method. for a year and a half I beatmatched in my headphones only, my first gig comes up and low and behold, the club had the old Rane rotary that only lets you cue one channel at a time.

Running into this situation (at a store, luckily not at a club) was where I learned how to use 1 ear on the phones and 1 ear on the monitor speaker since I wasn't able to cue more than 1 thing up at a time.

I was told by the elders of the midwest rave scene that learning how to mix on different systems and in different situations would only make one a better DJ. My mixing skills greatly increased after ditching the all headphone mixing.

These days I'll use the split cue whenever a mixer has it, since it is essentially the same thing as 1 ear on the headphone and 1 ear on the monitor (ie cue on 1 phone and master on the other phone).

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i've only ever used the "one ear on the cans, one ear to the speakers" method, ocassionally i'll try to mix without headphones all together.

by the way a recent thing i've noticed with my mixing is that whenever i try to do things perfect and write little notes to myslef about mixouts etc i almost always screw up the transition. but if i just wing it, and trust myself the mix turns out perfect, i think its because i'm feeling the music more this way.
anyone else notice this? i guess its kind of a good thing.

-sonykc

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Originally posted by DJ_RoKo by the way a recent thing i've noticed with my mixing is that whenever i try to do things perfect and write little notes to myslef about mixouts etc i almost always screw up the transition. but if i just wing it, and trust myself the mix turns out perfect, i think its because i'm feeling the music more this way. anyone else notice this? i guess its kind of a good thing. -sonykc

yeah, i pretty much go into the club with an idea of a few songs I'd like to start out with, anything else after that is just feeling out what direction to take the mix based on the crowd. no preconceived notion of what I'm going to play any given night.

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Originally posted by DJ_RoKo i've only ever used the "one ear on the cans, one ear to the speakers" method, ocassionally i'll try to mix without headphones all together.

And how the f*ck do you mix with no headphones?

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Originally posted by Lunar Phase 7 And how the f*ck do you mix with no headphones?

autosync on mk6s ?